Glaz - Posted on your video, but lots of players love helping new people explore this world. Hit me up on AIM - SpiffDR, or if you see Jalika in game say hello! It's incredible to see it through new eyes, and how out dated some of the introductory help is on the web site.

Jalika

Jalika, IPECAC - thank you very much for help :) I'll give another try today %)

Adventures continues! At last, it's time to finally settle down in DragonRealms :D First stream after a looong break:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ODeg6fqOH0

Hope to see your feedback!

[stream] Hiho! Today I went to the first hunt! It was really huge chank of game experience, I learned so much stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r91TLbx4jxo

Do you remeber you first ever battle, guys? I believe there was time where there weren't much guides around, it has to be challenging... Tell your story! :D

First time I ever hunted I went the the shipyard in crossing to fight rats, and I died. Yes, go ahead laugh, shipyard rats killed me.

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A mentor patted me on the head and told me to go hunt goblins out the west gate. That went about as well then as it would today.

I'm not sure this counts as a hunt- but there I was, a shiny new cleric- and I didn't even have a weapon! Weapons weren't standard new-character gear way back then like they are now. Anyway, I went exploring and wandered into a warehouse where I saw a silverfish. My first thought was, am I supposed to pet it? Fortunately, a slightly-more-experienced barb warned me to run before anything could happen. And off I went!

Ryeka

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Small adventure - tried to figue out about favors.. DragonRealms (MUD) GRAND TEMPLE TOUR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ80GGfPgcs

https://youtube.com/GlazGame — streams in English ........... https://youtube.com/StreamGuild — streams in Russian

Really wish you'd give it another shot without Lich. It's NOT a necessary part of the game.

>>Really wish you'd give it another shot without Lich. It's NOT a necessary part of the game.

This isn't the 90s. Automation of pointlessly repetitive actions is something that should have been done server side decades ago, but instead has to be handled client-side and frequently on an individual client basis.

Anyone playing with straight up Wizard or SF isn't really playing the same game as everyone else at this juncture and it isn't going to present a realistic experience for anyone who would prospectively be playing DR.

>Anyone playing with straight up Wizard or SF isn't really playing the same game as everyone else at this juncture and it isn't going to present a realistic experience for anyone who would prospectively be playing DR.

Aside from auto-mapping, I can't think of anything a Genie and Lich script can do that a SF script can't do. It does it more efficiently, for sure, but it doesn't do anything that is game changing.

Javac
That one guy

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guys, once you would try Lich, you won't come back to regular clients, trust me.. it's different level of your gameplay customization with YAML file system.

The only problem - Ruby/Lich glitch at my PC and there are no people who could understand why.

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>>Triggers, and in particularly script-specific triggers, make a world of difference in how you interact with the game.

That's an amusing choice of words...

> > Uh. Wow.

Yeah. I don't play anymore, but I do check in on the forums every few months, and this is such a "wow" moment that I have to respond. Statements like this are partly what let to the actions that caused me to quit. Javac's statement shows a staggering disconnect between how people "play" this game, or how much of an advantage a client like Genie or Lich gives over standard clients like stormfront.

Using an obligatory car analogy, that's like saying you can get anywhere you want by walking or swimming and asking why anyone would need a car or plane.

A few examples:

- Automapper, as said, but woefully understated. A 28,000 line travel script with very specific start/end points has been replaced with a 150 line dynamic script that can move you between any point on one map to any point on another map without hand-coding the directions (and hoping that someone doesn't knock you down). Every script is like this, so while you were technically true on this point, most people can't debug or even understand a massive script like this... let alone write one. Those that can would spend months creating and maintaining it out rather than hours with the Lich/Genie.
- Timeouts on matchwaits. Stormfront will hang indefinitely if you run into a string it didn't expect. Genie can continue and route around it.
- Simultaneously running multiple scripts. This allows a form of multi-threading and your script can respond far more quickly than something in stormfront.
- Actions, which are basically very simple scripts. This could be something as simple as saving a data value for later use, or it could be as complex as triggering a randomized function that executes a second or third script without interrupting your first. This is especially true for text that notifies you that a cool-down is finished. You don't have to interrupt your optimized script to act on the text, assuming your script could see it at all.
- eval, or the ability to execute functions within a put/send command.
- Audio, specifically audio-based triggers when you see certain inputs
- Logical comparison, you actually have an "if/then" function in Genie.
- Advanced botting, just go to TF to see a few public examples or you can check a few known offenders in prime and plat.
- Timers, or time-based global-variables allowing you to more accurately fine-tune script actions, especially those with cooldowns.
- Imports and shared libraries, or the ability to create libraries that are referenced by your other scripts to ease coding requirements and boost efficiencies, especially when they auto-update so you don't have to fix your own bugs.
- Real-time character swapping, which is important for some botting. #connect <profile> doesn't exist in stormfront.
- Built-in functions such as random, goto, math, delay, counter, actions, return, send, parse, advanced subs, and other global variables... to name a few.

I'm not saying you can't get creative. With orders of magnitude more work, literally hundreds of thousands or even millions of [duplicated] lines of code, you can make stormfront look and act like genie or lich. The difference is that's less efficient, impossible to optimize to the same degree, will perform objectively worse (especially in dangerous situations), and requires so many man hours that it's unreasonable beyond a hand-full of specialized scripts.

The nice thing about playing a MUD, most of them at least, is that there's no right or wrong way to do it. Everyone has their own personal taste, especially when it comes to the front-end. Let's try and stay respectful of that.

Helje
DragonRealms Senior Board Moderator

>Javac's statement shows a staggering disconnect between how people "play" this game, or how much of an advantage a client like Genie or Lich gives over standard clients like stormfront.

I still play the game fairly regularly. I use vanilla SF. I never said Genie and Lich didn't grant advantages, but it is a fallacy to say that we're playing different games.

>I 100% stand by my statement that it is a travesty that Simutronics continues to present players with The Wizard and Stormfront as viable options for playing their games.

I 100% stand by my statement that SF is perfectly viable. It requires some degree of skill at writing scripts, or a friend who will share scripts. You're free to disagree, but I script everything in SF just fine.

Javac
That one guy

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GUUUUUUUUUUUUYS! :D

My problem fixed by SMART guys from http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?117073-DragonRealms-error-XMLParser-tag_start-comparison-of-Fixnum-with-nil-failed forum :D Thank you all for support!

TIME TO GO BACK TO DragonRealms! :DDDDDDDDDDD

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>TIME TO GO BACK TO DragonRealms! :DDDDDDDDDDD

Haha, welcome back! :) I updated the Favor section with an extra mini guide!




"I, for one, think it's nice to have new folks who are excited and already care enough about the game to offer suggestions. We need more of that." -Solomon

Thanks for being in my corner Solomon, come back soon.